Narbik’s Bootcamp - Day 3 (BGP)

What a day it was today! This was like the longest BGP lecture of my life. He has changed his method from last classes and started off with teaching us how to optimize BGP. He thinks that if we know how BGP works then it won’t be hard to work with BGP. After the lecture, we have about 260 pages of labs! Talk about stress and hard work. Narbik expects each one of us to get 100% on FR, Switching, IGP and BGP. I think he covered each subtopic under BGP and my head is still hurting with all this. But as soon as I started doing labs, everything started making sense. One of the many things I like about Narbik’s labs is that they are VERY simple. He doesn’t want us to worry too much about topology but wants all our attention on the actual technology. That’s why most of his scenarios are around 3-4 routers with easy to follow IP addressing scheme so students don’t get lost trying to figure out the topology. So in BGP he covered almost everything under the sun including peer groups, templates, route dampening, ORF, synchronization, you name it.

I got about 60 pages of labs done today before it got way too much and I quit. So until today I have a few leftover labs that I plan on finishing by this weekend. Tomorrow we will cover RIPv2 and Multicast. When it comes to Multicast, I have NO clue! So it will be a real test for Narbik to convey Multicast to me

Have a good night!